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The secrets of The Book Smugglers -- REVEALED! Come along for the ninja interview of 2014 Hugo nominee for Best Fanzine, Ana Grilo, including discussion of the history of The Book Smugglers, Ana's history as fan, heavy background construction work, weather reports, and terrible audio quality. Download if you want to learn how to say Lord of the Rings in Portuguese.

Stock up on tissues and grab your bucket of emotions about Steve Rogers and join Renay and Rose as they cry over the perfection of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Steve's face, Steve's feelings, and Steve's friends: if you don't love Steve and this film, turn back now! Spoilers for the whole film and randomly, Man of Steel. Download the episode if, like us, you're overly invested in the happiness of Steve Rogers.

Grab your ballots and your pin numbers and hold on tight as Justin and Renay tackle the 2014 Hugo Award Debate Season and all associated tickle fights. Self-promotion wank, category wank, and the inevitable unpredictably of it all due to the non-U.S. Worldcon are all up for analysis. Download the episode if you're way too invested in Best Related Work category.

Book your helicopter flight, brush up on your lucid dreaming, and join Susan and Renay as they dive into their emotional experiences of The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves. From super dead lost Welsh kings to hitmen to fully realized adult characters, we dig in to our feelings about the series so far, weep over RONAN LYNCH, and inevitably launch a ship war of two people. Download the episode if you love Ronan Lynch.

Clear your library cards and prepare for the descent into an abyss of media recommendations, boxes of library books, crying over Supernatural, video game woes, our continuing Ancillary Justice Hugo campaign, recent reading/watching, and 2014 reading goals. Download the episode if you've ever brought books home from the library in a bag on wheels.

Grab your charms, your cloaks, and your protection against evil mages and join Renay and Courtney Schafer — author of the adventure fantasy The Whitefire Crossing and its sequel, The Tainted City — as they discuss science fiction and fantasy, genre divides, gender parity, conventions, favorite authors, terrifying mountain trips, and a little fandom history. Download the episode for terrifying anecdotes about eating bugs and deadly falling rocks.

Disclaimer and warning: this episode was recorded five thousand years ago in Internet time and both of us were suffering from the plague.

Strap into your jaeger and prepare to hit the breach as Renay and Jodie team up to discuss Pacific Rim, the monsters versus robots film of our hearts. We lavish love on Mako Mori (OUR QUEEN), weep over the potential reality of Idris Elba as the Sean Bean of SF, and ponder the nature of love in action film narratives (if you don't ship Hermann/Newt, we cannot be friends). Complete spoilers for Pacific Rim, season two of Teen Wolf, and the end of Prometheus. Download the episode if your sexuality is Stacker Pentecost.

Renay and Rose once again come together to discuss another beloved, but infuriating, trip to Beacon Hills. We discuss our complicated relationship to Teen Wolf, Derek's status as Jeff Davis's favorite punching bag, and cry tears of perfection about the interpersonal relationships -- the one thing the writers seem to understand, because we're convinced they don't understand anything else, especially their own plotlines. Complete spoilers for all seasons of Teen Wolf.

Renay and Rose swoon over Grimm, including but not limited to Nick's precious face, Monroe's sweaters, Hank and Wu!!!, baby fic we'd love to see, and the inevitable slide into Teen Wolf crossover ideas and discussions. Complete spoilers for Grimm seasons one and two.

Renay and Ana discuss their favorite books so far from 2013, including 10,000 derailments for discussion of book marketing, YA fandom, blogging, fannishness and fanfic, series fatigue, books we're looking forward to reading in the latter half of the year, and screeching in joy/horror at our life choices.